Gleason's Gielinor Guide

Sapphire bolts (e)

Released							31 July 2006 (Update)
Also called							Enchanted sapphire bolts
Members							Yes
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							Yes
Noteable							No
Options							Wield, Drop
Examine							Enchanted Sapphire tipped Mithril Crossbow Bolts.
Values
Value							40 coins
High alch							24 coins
Low alch							16 coins
Weight							0 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange							24 coins (info)
Buy limit							11,000
Daily volume							107,256
View real-time prices
Advanced data
Item ID							9240
Link							MOID

Sapphire bolts (e) are mithril bolts tipped with enchanted sapphire. Sapphire bolts can be enchanted through the spell Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Sapphire) by a player with level 7 Magic. The spell enchants 10 sapphire bolts at a time.

	Clear Mind
A player activates the Clear Mind effect

Combat stats

Attack bonuses

+0	+0	+0	+0	+0
Defence bonuses

+0	+0	+0	+0	+0
Other bonuses				Slot

+0	+83	+0%	+0	List

Special effect

Sapphire bolts (e) have a chance of triggering the Clear Mind effect.

Clear Mind drains a portion of the target's Prayer points and grants them to the attacker. The chance of this effect occurring and amount drained varies when attacking Monsters or Players.

If the player has completed the Hard Kandarin Diary, there is a 10% increase of the likelihood that the special effect of an enchanted bolt will occur. This effect is always active regardless of whether or not the headgear is equipped.

NPC mechanics

The chance of the special effect occurring is 25% in PvM^[1] and increases to 27.5% with the Hard Diary completion.

Clear Mind drains 1/10th of the target's current Ranged level, rounded down, from the target's Prayer points. The attacker restores 1/8th of this amount as prayer points, even if the target does not visibly use overhead prayers. This means in most situations a player can expect to recover points equal to 1/80th of the enemy's Ranged level, rounded down.

For example on creatures such as the Taloned Wyvern (Ranged level 90) you can expect to restore 1 Prayer point per activation, on a boss like Zulrah (Ranged level 300) the bolts can restore 3 Prayer points and on TzTok-Jad (Ranged level 960) the sapphire bolts can restore up to 12 Prayer points per activation.

Without the Hard Kandarin Diary, sapphire bolts (e) would restore about 260-520 Prayer points across the entire Fight Cave. Unlike diamond or ruby (e) bolts, they don’t boost DPS — which means you won’t save prayer through faster kills. Most of the restoration comes at the very end: roughly 50-160 points from the earlier waves versus 210-360 points from TzTok-Jad alone.

Player mechanics

The base chance of the special effect occurring is 5% in PvP^[2] and increases to 5.5% with the Hard Diary completion.

Clear Mind drains 1/20th of the attacker's current Ranged level, rounded down, from the target's Prayer points. The attacker gains half of that amount, rounded down again.^[3] For example, if the attacker has level 99 in Ranged, then the target loses 4 Prayer points, and the attacker gains 2. With boosts, up to 5 points can be drained, though only 2 points will be restored still.

If the amount of Prayer points to be drained is higher than the number of Hitpoints the target has left, no more Prayer points can be drained than that number. The Prayer drain calculation also takes overhitting into account, resulting at times in a lower drain than might be expected from the damage roll alone.^[4]

Creation

Requirements
Skill		Level	XP
Magic		7 ^(b)	17.5
Members		Ticks	3 (1.8s)

Materials
Item		Quantity	Cost
	Sapphire bolts	10	370
	Water rune	1	5
	Mind rune	1	3
	Cosmic rune	1	123
Total cost			501
	Sapphire bolts (e)	10	240
Profit			−261
Profit after GE Tax			−261

Steps
	Members	Skills	XP	Materials
Mithril bolts (unf) × 10	1	53	50	1 × Mithril bar
Mithril bolts × 10	1	54	50	10 × Mithril bolts (unf) 10 × Feather
Sapphire bolt tips × 12	1	56	4	1 × Sapphire
Sapphire bolts × 10	1	56	47	10 × Mithril bolts 10 × Sapphire bolt tips
Sapphire bolts (e) × 10	1	7	17.5	10 × Sapphire bolts 1 × Water rune 1 × Mind rune 1 × Cosmic rune

Used in recommended equipment

Rank	Method
2	Phantom Muspah/Strategies (Ranged)

Changes

Date	Changes
25 January 2023 (Update)	If the target's remaining Hitpoints are less than 5% of the attacker's Ranged level, the Prayer drain will be calculated using the target's remaining Hitpoints instead. The Clear Mind special effect will now only activate if a bolt passes its accuracy check.
16 April 2015 (Update)	Completing the Kandarin Hard Diary now increases the chance of enchanted bolt special effects activating by 10%, even without wearing Kandarin headgear 3.
5 March 2015 (Update \| poll)	The chance of enchanted bolt special effects activating is increased by 10% wearing Kandarin headgear 3.
18 June 2007 (Update)	The item's value was increased from 1 to 40.

Gallery

One sapphire bolt (e)
Two sapphire bolts (e)
Three sapphire bolts (e)
Four sapphire bolts (e)
Five sapphire bolts (e)

References

^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 7 March 2023. Archived from the original on 13 May 2026. Mod Ash: "I think it'd be based on 25% (plus diary buffs) for any eligible NPC *if* you pass the accuracy/defence roll first."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 7 March 2023. Archived from the original on 13 May 2026. Mod Ash: "I think it'd be based on 25% (plus diary buffs) for any eligible NPC *if* you pass the accuracy/defence roll first."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 13 May 2016. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Mod Ash: "The target loses points calculated as 1/20 of the attacker's current Ranged stat, and the attacker gains about half of them."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 21 June 2023. Archived from the original on 21 June 2023. Mod Ash: "I believe it calculates 5% of the attacker's visible stat, capped at the target's remaining health, taking into account any overhitting going on. The overhitting check may make it prone to draining a lot less than one might expect."